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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FESTIVAL. "Carl Sandburg Remembered" includes eulogies by President Johnson and Poets Archibald MacLeish and Mark Van Doren and recordings by the late great poet himself...
...something like $1 billion to dip into. Even at that, the art is not necessarily appreciated. One of Paul's daughters brought a friend home from Foxcroft (that school demands a lot more than a "good seat" for riding these days!). Well, the friend looked at a Van Gogh and said: "Who paints in the family?" "Nobody," the Mellon girl answered. "Dad gets them at a store...
Though last week's hearings barely scratched the surface of Wall Street's rate structure, broker witnesses shed some light on how much give ups cost them. Van Vechten Burger, managing partner of Manhattan's Pershing & Co., testified that his firm routinely handles stock orders from mutual funds for only 25% of the fee set by the Big Board, passes on 75% to other exchange members. Last year, he said, Pershing thus surrendered some $6.9 million of its $9.7 million take from mutual-fund and other institutional trading. Michael J. Heaney, a floor partner at the American...
...Princess (Diana van der Vlis) makes a spectacular entrance riding a Honda montorbike in a sliver lame pants-suit with a blue choker and helmet. Rosaline (Denise Huot), in a navy blue suit and white boots, also arrives on a Honda (which, at the opening performance, nearly sailed over the footlights and into the audience), while the other two ladies, Maria (Kathleen Dabney) and Katherine (Marian Hailey), appear on foot. The Princess' courtier Boyet (Thomas Ruisinger), in a blue jacket with yellow handkerchief, white ducks, bow tie, and black-and-white shoes, is a U.S. Southerner with a duly droll...
...Plagued by a heart defect, Barbara Triano entered New York City's Van Etten Hospital in 1960 for tests to determine whether she should undergo open-heart surgery. While glucose was being administered to The Bronx woman, the bottle ran dry. As a result, air bubbles were fed into her bloodstream, causing her heart to stop. Doctors revived the seemingly lifeless patient after a minute and a half, but she was left almost totally blind and suffered a severe speech impairment. After eight years, her suit against the city finally got to court; after three days of trial, Miss...